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(upbeat music) - A person is dead after a hit and run crash in Fayetteville, coming up how that driver led deputies on a chase that ended in another crash. - Another person is hired after an early morning shooting in Raleigh, what we have learned from authorities there in the WRAL breaking news tracker, as well as police, and they work to make an arrest there. - And the second day in a row of a heat advisory, I'll show you what it will feel like hour by hour through the afternoon. - The sirens at the Harris Nuclear Plant will go off again today, this time as planned. The test that's happening this morning, after the false alarm that startled many people earlier this week. Good morning, everyone, it is six o'clock. What's draining everyone is this extreme heat, and we're hoping for a little relief later this week, but first we have to get through another hot day, I'm Renee Choo. - And I'm Jeff Hoey, now we can see it in the distance just a little bit, but we're being tested daily. - So far Elizabeth, I think we've passed Elizabeth, but tempers are running thin, I think. - Ooh, they are, yeah, second day in a row, with a heat advisory, it'll feel like 105 to 110. I will walk you through it hour by hour, already at lunchtime, it's going to feel like 100 degrees. It'll feel like 104 to 105 through most of the afternoon, even into the early evening. The heat advisory expires at 8 p.m., and that's when we'll drop back down to 99. So the danger zone for much of the afternoon, so just take it easy again. We're taking a live look at Apex, and there's a lot of cloud cover out across our area this morning, so much moisture in the atmosphere, you step outside and it just feels like you could swim through the air. 81 in the triangle with a dew point of 75, so very uncomfortable to start with, and of course, so we're going to feel that heat all through the afternoon. Future gas shows partly cloudy skies by the afternoon, so where we do have some clouds now, those will be dissipating over the next few hours. Showers and thunderstorms for today are likely to be pretty late. We may not see those until fairly late in the afternoon, and then maybe continuing through dinner time. Only a 30 to 40% chance of seeing showers and thunderstorms for today. It's a much better chance on Friday. We should see a good soaking rain. I'll show you how much we can see it, how much it'll drop our temperatures. Coming up, kid. - Elizabeth at 602, all new into the WRL traffic center. We're getting reports of Raleigh believes, and first responders closing one lane of traffic on I-40 eastbound as a result of this crash. We're not picking up any major delays on our sentences, but just watch for some police activity in that area. If you have an opportunity, move over one lane, of course. This is something that's been a trouble spot this morning. I-40, I-540, those westbound lanes between Litchford and Honeycut Road. We also got this report of a crash near Litchford Road. The immediate area, we're not seeing any major delays in that area, but watch for this delay there on I-40 westbound. If that's part of your morning commute, definitely give yourself some extra time this morning. - Ken, thank you. Breaking news this morning in Raleigh, a woman is seriously hurt after shooting in a neighborhood off Sunnybrook Road. Nick Perlin is live in the WRL breaking news tracker near the shooting scene on Blue Ribbon Lane. And Nick police just cleared that scene within the last half hour. - Right, that's right, investigators were here for about four and a half hours and they taped off this area of wood meadow road behind me. And this crime seemed to extended all the way down to Blue Ribbon Lane. Now, I wanna show you this video from the WRL breaking news tracker just so you can see how far back Raleigh police had us. That shooting happening about a quarter mile from where I was standing and where I'm currently standing. We do know one woman was seriously hurt in this shooting. We did hear that she is expected to recover, but we still have questions for Raleigh police. We're trying to figure out what led to this shooting and if they know who fired those shots early this morning, we'll stay on top of this one and keep pushing for answers. Live in Raleigh, Nick Perlin, WRL news. - And we have more breaking news. We are following this morning a hit and run leads police in a chase with deputies in Fayetteville. That crash happened late last night on Merkerson Road. The chase then ended on Ramsey Street in WRL's Kelsey Coffee is at that crash scene this morning, Kelsey, this was a chaotic situation. - Jeff, there's just a lot of moving parts to this story and deputies have now cleared this scene, but this area looked much different a few hours ago. Let's take you to video now from the WRL breaking news tracker after that crash. Here's a breakdown of what happened just after 10 last night. A driver was speeding near a deputy on Merkerson Road. The deputy tried to catch up with the driver, but they kept speeding and hit a person. The deputy stayed there to help, but the person later died. Another deputy came in to find the driver. Then the driver led the second deputy on a chase. The chase ended in a crash at Langdon and Ramsey Street. Deputies were finally able to track down the driver after that crash. That driver was arrested and we're working to find out what charges they may be facing this morning. Kelsey Coffee, WRL news, live in Fayetteville. - A man is facing an animal cruelty charge after Carrie police say he left a dog in a hot car. Police say Paul Fisher, the third of Elm City, intentionally left the dog in the car. We're working to learn more about how that dog is doing. Fisher is doing a Wake County courtroom later today. - Covering Wake County. Don't be alarmed when you hear the sirens near the Harris nuclear plant in Wake County today. It's just a test that comes after sirens. We're unintentionally sounded Monday morning. That led to this alert being sent out to phones all across the county. WRL's Laura Levine is outside the plant in New Hill. Right now, this is a regularly scheduled test after that scary false alarm Laura. - In Jeff right now, we're standing right outside of the Jordan Point neighborhood. It's about three miles from that plant. But when this alert popped up on many people's phones on Monday, it really caused some panic and fear for a lot of people. When these sirens went off, neighbors told us that they felt that they were led a bit astray by Wake County officials at that time. Duke Energy and Wake County officials want to remind the community they will test sirens as scheduled today around the Harris nuclear plant. Now today's testing will be a five to 30 second test between 10 and 11 this morning. Some sirens make it tested more than once. Officials say on Monday, while Duke Energy was conducting the routine silent testing of sirens, they were trying to ensure their proper functioning will a small number of sirens in the 10 mile emergency planning zone and a virtually went off. Wake County emergency management explains the sirens are an initial alert for residents and not necessarily cause for immediate evacuation. - Is when the sirens go off, it is simply asking you to pay attention. We can't provide direction over that siren. It doesn't talk to you. It doesn't allow us to type out a message over the siren, but it simply allows us a way that, you know, whether you're indoors or outdoors in that whole 10 mile area spanning four different counties, we can say, please pay attention to an authoritative media source. - Yeah, so there's a lot of questions this morning, such as what caused the sirens to go off on Monday, Duke Energy is investigating. Laura Veen, WRL news live in New Hill. - Today, the Cumberland County School Board will vote on a new school resource officer agreement with the town of Hope Mills. The Hope Mills Police Department will need to provide officers as SROs. The change comes after the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office announced it would no longer provide deputies to schools and Hope Mills. The meeting starts at one this afternoon. - Some people living in North Raleigh say they're becoming increasingly concerned about safety, especially at night, and they're sharing those concerns with Raleigh police and trying to find solutions. Police hosted a community meeting last night at the Millbrook Community Center. Officers noted the road rage incidents and card thefts are up in North Raleigh. Officers also shared an update about the connect Raleigh program. That allows police to tap into footage from private security cameras if people allow them. So far, police have access to about 900 cameras. - Today, the NAACP Raleigh Apex Branch will hold a news conference to call for an investigation into the prosecution of Henderson at water. The Holly Springs man was charged with the series of pellet gun shootings in 2020. Deputy say he targeted moving cars. None of the shootings was fatal. In August, 2023, the case was declared a mistrial after Atwater already spent two years in jail. He was then arraigned again on the same charges in January with a trial scheduled for July 22nd. The NAACP's news conference will happen at 10 this morning at the legislative building. - Good morning. I'm Chris Lovengood in the WRAL Live Center. Today, Fed Chair Jerome Powell is set to speak before the U.S. House. He talked to the U.S. Senate yesterday, essentially presenting what's called the semi-annual monetary policy report. This is basically a current snapshot of the economy, along with an outlook of it, but also the Fed's monetary policy regarding federal funds. He told the Senate yesterday, inflation has come a long way for the last couple of years, but still not at the level where the Fed is comfortable cutting interest rates. I'll leave you with one thing here. Just looking at the futures this morning. Let me hit refresh so I can show you what those look like. Mostly in the green, as I've seen this morning, including the NASDAQ up 51 points. - Chris, thanks. A groundbreaking is happening today for new housing, for young people transitioning out of foster care. The new housing will be called Hope Village at Method. It's a joint project between the nonprofit Casa and the Hope Center at Poland. It will consist of nine one bedroom units for youth aging out of foster care. The groundbreaking ceremony gets started at 9.30 this morning. New research finds a monthly essential for women may contain toxic metals, why they don't show up in existing testing for tampon safety. And multiple people in Florida and Texas are recovering after being attacked by sharks. We'll hear from a woman who says her leg is pretty much gone. And another day of a heat advisory, it'll feel like 105 or hotter across our area this afternoon. 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It'll feel like you can swim through the air when you head out to walk the dog this morning and walking the dog right after work is gonna feel pretty miserable as well. We do have a small chance for thunderstorms later on today. I'll walk you through the future cast time, like, coming up, Ken. - We're following some breaking news here, the Double Aerial Traffic Center. We got reports of one lane being blocked right there on I-40 Eastbound Air Aviation Parkway. We're gonna give you a live look right now because on our sensors, we're not picking up any major delays, but you can see the delays right there, the flashing lights that's happening right there in the Eastbound lanes of I-40. Again, one lane is closed right around that area. We'll keep an eye on that, but you can see traffic is still flowing nicely. Else we're around the triangle, there's a major slowdown in I-540 Westbound lanes. Coming in at about 10 minutes, I'll show you exactly what's going on there. - Ken, here's the story I know has not gotten past you. Raleigh's restaurant landscape is changing. Some of the city's dining staples are either closing or moving. Now, some of them include Gonsitacos and Tequila, Union Special Bread, Oak City Meatball Kitchen, clouds brewing, they've all announced plans to close down in Raleigh. BB's Crispy Chicken closed its Raleigh location last month, and Plates neighborhood kitchen plans to close for good at the end of this month. NC State economist Steve Allen tells W-R-E-L the increase in post-pandemic remote and hybrid work is really taking a bite out of restaurant revenue. - If workers are only coming in two, three days a week, that's a big problem for restaurants. Now, there are some new restaurants opening in Raleigh that include Alpaca Peruvian Chicken on Hillsborough Street, Georgio's Epicurean Market in East End, and Otimi Comita in historic Oakwood. - A monthly essential for many women could contain some concerning chemicals. 14 popular brands of tampons were found to have lead, arsenic, and other toxic metals inside them. Tampons are regulated for safety across the U.S., but existing rules do not yet require chemical testing. We spoke with one of the researchers behind the study, Dr. Kristin Upson. - What we don't know and where we need further research is to understand how our menstruators, if they are exposed to metals and tampons, whether tampons are a source of metal exposure. - The samples included both organic and non-organic products. All were found to have measurable concentrations of at least 16 different metals. - Two shark attacks in two states of Florida teen and a Texas woman are now both recovering after they were bitten by sharks. W.R.I.L.S. Michelle Mcconicki is here with both stories and how they are doing this morning, Michelle. - Yeah, Jeff, several shark attacks have been reported in Florida in the last week. A teen training to become a lifeguard there is now recovering. 14-year-old Dempsey Manhart was bitten during the training camp on Monday. He says that he thought that he hit another person in the water when diving in, but it wasn't a person, it was a shark. But he's not letting that scary incident stop him. 17 stitches later, he is asking when he can get back in the water. Also in Texas, Tabitha Sullivan was attacked by a shark at South Padre Island over the 4th of July holiday. She says she was in the water with her teenage daughter and some friends when she saw something gray in the water, she kicked at it and that's when the shark grabbed her leg, her husband was also bitten while trying to help her. - He fought the shark. So he's got two bites on him. He's actually in the room like they used it next to me, but yeah, it was crazy, kind of surreal still. - Yeah, she says her leg is pretty much gone. The bite is all the way down to the bone. She says she will need multiple surgeries and doctors are hopeful that they can save her leg officials in Texas say those shark attacks there, they're not common. When bites do occur, they're usually a case of mistaken identity by sharks looking for food. - One more deal for Tabitha. Michelle, thanks. Today is the final day a popular TV show will be filming on UNC Chapel Hills campus. The shoot is for the third season of the show, the summer I turned pretty. If you're driving around campus today, make sure to keep an eye out for any road closures. The new season is set to premiere next summer. I'm not fan of that series, the summer I turned pretty. This summer, we're all turning into a hot mess. The extreme heat is draining us all. Elizabeth, what we wouldn't give just for the temperatures out there to feel like the low 90s, we'll take that. - So what would you give Renee? I'm just saying, 'cause you know, I think we can do that for the right price. Let's take a look at Gold's Road this morning. No cloud covered there, but we are seeing some clouds in a few spots. Apex a bit cloudy as well as Chapel Hill, courtesy of top of the whole restaurant in there in Fayetteville, where our newsroom is. We take a look at a big picture, and this is the remnants of barrel, and that has stayed well to our west. So it's been no help for us in terms of helping to cool us off. As a matter of fact, ahead of this front, we have a very strong flow coming out of the south. So temperatures are already in the 80s in some places as you're stepping outside this morning. But this front's gonna swing on in and stall over us and help to bring us a chance of some thunderstorms for tomorrow, and then a wave or a low will ride up it on Friday, and that will drop our highs back into the 80s. Woo, it's only gonna be one day, but we'll take it. So the remnants of barrel continue to move on up into the northeast, up into the Great Lakes area. Out ahead of that front, we're gonna see an isolated shower with the thunderstorm this evening. This is late this afternoon or this evening, and then we're gonna see that front sliding through. We're fairly quiet behind it. All the rest of that moisture moves up to the north. And then that front stalls here to the east of the front. For tomorrow is where we'll have the best chance of seeing any rain, and then it stalls, and a low pressure system rides up it, and we'll increase our chances for rain on Friday. So rain on Friday should be widespread. Thursday, it'll all be east of I-95. And for today, just a few limited showers and thunderstorms. As a matter of fact, on average, it's gonna be about a tenth of an inch or less. But a quarter to half an inch in our eastern counties on Thursday, and then widespread one to two on Friday. So that will be nice. The flip side of that is it will have the potential for some localized flooding on Friday. It's a level two risk for flooding, not for severe storms, but for flooding there from the Triangle area and eastward. So we do have the drought situation still, and hopefully some of that rain will help that. But of course, the cons of that would be that potential for some flooding. So here's a look at what we're expecting on Friday. We're gonna see a front and a low moving through. It's gonna bring us a lot of tropical moisture, some heavy rainfall, widespread rain, and the potential for some localized flooding. Speaking of the hurricane season, everything is quiet in the tropics right now, but Colorado State University just updated its forecast for the season to 25 named storms, and the average is 14, six major hurricanes, and the average is three. So it could still be quite an active season. Right now, we're seeing some dust from the Sahara Desert moving across the tropics. That is very dry air, not conducive to storms developing. And so that's why things are quiet for us. Of course, we have one more day of a heat advisory before we start to see temperatures dropping off a little bit, 96 today, 93 Thursday, and then Friday with some widespread rain. We're looking at mid-80s, but we hit into next week, and we jump right back up into that dangerous heat again, Ken. - Oh, thank you, Elizabeth. Right now we're following some breaking news here, the W.E.A.R. Traffic Center. On one lane of I-40 Eastbound close right now, as a result of a crash, we're not seeing any major slowdown in the area, but we want to give you a live look in the I-40 and the airport, Boulevard. You can see the flashing lights right there, and that one lane close, but again, it's not causing any delays in that area, so if that's part of your morning commute, you should be just fine. Elsewhere around the triangle we're seeing, I-540 has been a real troubled spot this morning. This crash right there on I-540, between near Litchford Road, has really not caused any major issues, but this incident there on I-40 and falls of New Sword and I-540, that's been a real problem. You can see it's beginning to clear up right now, all in the clearing phases, but that's been going on for at least an hour now, but you can see all lanes of I-540 Westbound completely free and clear this morning. 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All in. - Right? - We're going to fight on the Colosseum floor again. - All right. - Can't wait to see it. - Well, check out these new pictures of Rihanna and ASAP Rocky's son, Grizza. The promotional photos show off their new boxes, briefs, and tees in Rihanna's clothing line. - Yeah, it's her second kid, right? And Rihanna said, "You know what? "She would maybe think about a third, "try to get her girl." - Mm-hmm. - But first word from RZA just happened. Hey. - Hey. - Hey. - Does it first love it? - Hey. - And many more words to come. - Thank you, Ken. Duke Energy will test the sirens that the Harris nuclear plant today after a false alarm earlier this week. How crews are assessing that situation after the alert that sent us, scare through Wake County? - And another unit advisory for it today, hour by hour, it could be a leg of time as we move behind the center of the car. - A person is dead after a hit and run crash in Fayetteville coming up, how that driver led deputies on a chase in Fayetteville that led to another crash. - And a heat advisory again today, it'll feel like 105 to 110 across our area. I'll show you when there's some relief in our forecast. - Save big this summer with great deals. All in the King Supers app. Get juicy Washington red cherries for £299 a pound, then get 10 for 10 on items like Lays Stacks, Rice Oroni, and Sparkling Ice Sparkling Water for $1 each, all with your card. Shuff these deals at your local Kroger today or tap the screen now to download the King Supers app to save big today. 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